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Air Serbia plans Ohrid service from June

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Belgrade - Ohrid flights to launch this summer

The Mayor of Ohrid, Nikola Bakračeski, has confirmed that Air Serbia will launch flights from Belgrade to Ohrid in June, following talks between the two sides earlier this week. Services are expected to run on a seasonal summer basis until late October. Mr Bakračeski said he was confident both local authorities and the Macedonian Ministry of Transport and Communication will jointly support the new flights through subsidies and deemed it an "important project". "During our meeting we reviewed all possible models of cooperation, which would benefit both sides. We concluded that the Belgrade - Ohrid service is significant for us in two respects. Firstly, the flights will cater for Serbian tourists but also travellers across Europe and the United States, keeping in mind that services from New York to Belgrade will launch in June. On the other hand, these flights will benefit locals who will be able to travel to various destinations and back home via Belgrade", the Mayor said.

EX-YU Aviation News inquired Air Serbia about the planned new service back in December last year but received no response to date. Flights between Belgrade and Ohrid last operated by Jat Airways in the summer of 2013, on a seasonal basis, when Air Serbia's predecessor maintained six weekly services (launched on June 23). Last week, Air Serbia's Chairman, Siniša Mali, said the carrier is also considering introducing flights to Kiev and St. Petersburg, as well as acquiring a second long haul aircraft. The airline last expanded its network in December 2014 when it introduced flights to Zagreb.

Ohrid Airport handled 107.916 passengers last year, overtaking its 1996 record. The airport's 54% growth in 2015 was fuelled by Wizz Air, which introduced year-round flights from Basel and seasonal services to London Luton Airport, carrying some 60.000 passengers to and from Ohrid. This summer, Arkia Israeli Airlines will launch seasonal flights from Tel Aviv on June 9, which will operate up to three times per week, each Tuesday, Thursday and Sunday, with an Embraer E190 jet. In addition, one of Europe's largest tour operators, Thomas Cook, will introduce summer charters from Brussels to Ohrid on June 20, while Corendon Dutch Airlines will resume its seasonal services from Amsterdam.

Highly doubt it. BNX prices were agreed by the highest government officials, it wasn't up to JU. OHD will most likely be the same price as SKP. JU has a policy of no offering tickets for less than €100.

They should also consider Mostar, Maribor and Zadar and exend their fleet with at least 4-5 more aircraft already. I don't understand why wouldn't they go with Split and Dubrovnik year-round, 2-3 weekly flights in the beginning would surely work well. Also, there is plenty of room for them in Romanian market, they could easily introduce flights to Oradea, Cluj, Iasi, Sibiu, Constanta and so many other cities. I don't understand what are they waiting for, they should've done it many months ago while OU wasn't even able to compete with them. On the other hand, maybe there is no capacity at BEG for many developments in their market, shouldn't they start expending T2 in September? What happened with that?

He also had that blog post that went viral. Also, the other day a Serbian tourist was beaten up in Croatia. It's beyond me why people go there when it's obviously not that safe... with the exception of Istra, of course.

Nothing happened with T2 expansion. BEG recently posted RFP for capacity evaluation, a solid sign they are trying to justify lack of expansion. Airports like SPU are busy expanding, not trying to measure capacity.

But would BEG-MBX work? I don't see there being a large market from eastern Slovenia to the Balkans, the Middle East and Asia (served via AUH).

In my opinion, JU should tap into currently unserved markets which have a certain amount of O&D passengers; some of these are secondary Austrian cities as well as some currently unserved destinations in Germany such as Hamburg or Nuremberg. However, the Atr might be too slow and the A319 too heavy and economically uncompetitive- a regional jet is more than needed for such markets.

I think Slovenia is well covered with double daily flights to LJU.

One destination I would consider is Trieste which, even though close to LJU, has enough local demand to justify flights. If not Trieste then there is Venice.

As far as Trieste goes, I just checked and Jat suspended it back in May 2011. If I remember correctly that was the time when their Atr fleet was falling apart and they needed to redeploy the aircraft elsewhere.

What was the name of that CEO from the early 2000s who wanted to establish a regional branch of JAT which was supposed to feed its flights out of BEG? He seems like one of the few rare, competent CEOs JU ever had.

Discredited person? How so? He wasn't that bad, actually he was above average when compared to the others who used to run JU. Even today with Mr Kondic the airline is struggling in many different ways.

JU has lower workforce cost and can use fuel subsidy. It will likely recover more than 70% and could use plane on extra days, it is now flying 7 days per week. Overall it was planned to be cash negative for the first 2-3 years but much less than $2M per year.

Just before the last ATR was added to the fleet, in a brief talk with Sinisa Mali, I got the info that AS will acquire 5 more a/c prior to the first a320neo in 2018. 1 ATR arrived, 1 a330 is coming, 1 more a330 is possible and that means that 2 more a/c are planned. I doubt that anything other than a319/320 or atr72 will be acquired but again anything is possible.

I'm hoping this will go through as planned but again, so much was promised from them and not fulfilled that every info should be taken with a reserve.

@Anon.11:44AMThank God some percept OHD for something more than 'tourist airport'.I wrote before on some other article almost the same.The Benelux tourists are coming trough their own network (Corendon, ArkeFly from AMS and Jetairfly from BRU, there was even few charter with Transavia from RTM), now adding Thomas Cook Belgium and to give some different taste, the Israelis.But rarely who tooks seriuos the numbers of SKP (app.1/3 of the passengers are coming from this region, and back at the days when MAT/Avioimpex operated most of the flight were via SKP (AMS,CPH,STR, GVA, HAM), exept ZRH, VIE (one of them flew directly, don't remember which), DUS.Kinda like the situation with INI/BEG (maybe the only difference they never even gave INI a chance).Also JP was flying 4p/w (DC9/320/CRJ) and Balkan to SOF (at some point 7p/w).The problem back than was the killing of the passengers with the pricing, no order at all, etc.

The numbers are bad for the region but i guess not for transportation; statisticaly OHD has the greatest percent of emigration in the last 7-8 years (almost 1000 a year, about 85% abroad - NL, BEL, ITA, USA...you name it.Even in UAE and Qatar the last 3-4 years).The town went from city with good industry in ex-yu times (>90% employed) to a place called 'tourist one'.Almost the same thing with Struga (ITA,AUS,CH,GER) and especially with Bitola (CAN, AUS, USA - adding the emigration from the 70's till now,unnoficialy the number of people from BT abroad is more then the population in the city itself).In the 90 min's zone Prilep is the most distanced, right about 90 min's.Even Gostivar (huge diaspora) is in that limit and faster after the Kicevo - Ohrid highway will be finished.Some people from Korcha and Elbasan are using OHD even now, especially after Wizz got in.Tirana on the other hand is 3 hrs by car (the part from the border till Elbasan is horror, but then there is highway), but they got lack of LCC there, so it's ok.

@Nemje On it's official site, it says 'generally from 5.30 till 22.30, 24 hrs on request'.JP used to fly to LJU early morning around 5AM and arrived about 1AM.I don't think it will be fidderent for JU if they ask for those midnight hours.

so far we have a number of destinations in game: OHD confirmed, JFK confirmed, PRN most likely mentioned by a couple of people, LED and KPB mentioned by politician, ZAD mentioned. Other destinations that were mentioned on this site: CAI, MUC, and secondary Romanian city.

just to include: PRN will be operated by Aviolet is what I heard and BUD was suspended so an ATR was freed, so technically JU can open OHD,PRN, and one other destination like LED 4 p/w without acquiring extra aircraft. With that in mind, it would have to reduce charters a bit. Somebody correct me if my interpretation is wrong.

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